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00:00 As parts of the planet burn and parts lie underwater, climate scientists report a grim
00:07 milestone. July 2023 was the hottest month on record.
00:14 The European Climate Change Monitoring Service, Copernicus, reports the global average surface
00:18 air temperature hit 16.95 degrees Celsius last month. That's a third of a degree higher
00:25 than the previous record in 2019. The world's oceans were half a degree warmer than the
00:31 previous three decades, reaching temperatures as high as 20.96 degrees.
00:38 People's perspective is that the ocean is so big, it's so vast that it can buffer anything
00:44 that humanity can throw at it and the reality is that's not the case.
00:48 Antarctic sea ice levels have seen a massive fall, 15% below average for this time of year.
00:56 And the world is continuing to experience more and more extreme weather events, floods,
01:01 storms, wildfires and heatwaves.
01:04 The heatwaves that we're experiencing on land and the marine heatwaves that we're seeing
01:10 are happening in unusual locations where we haven't expected them.
01:15 July's new high means that for the first time the global temperature increase since pre-industrial
01:20 times surpassed the key threshold of 1.5 degrees.
01:25 Meanwhile the thirst for energy to fuel human activity shows no signs of plateauing.
01:32 And despite investment in renewable energies, fossil fuels are still providing 80% of the
01:37 world's energy demands.